Let's throw more fuel on the bottled water fire. NPR reports that a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA, in polycarbonate bottles may—or may not—have health effects. Polycarbonate, brand name Lexan®, is used in the most well-known brand of hard plastic water bottles.
To be clear: now in question are the very same reusable alternatives to water in disposable plastic bottles… the ones we've been championing for quite some time.
So, we thought it might be a good time to revisit a few of our past posts on water bottle choices.
oy so no nalgenes, huh.
i have a kleen kanteen from greenfeet and as soon as the water warms up (there's one of those chilled water filter/cooler thinsg in my office) it tastes funny. nalgene = no taste and does not succumb to my clumsiness. i hope those sigg ones don't taste funny.
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Whatever happened to thermoses with glass linings? Those were heavier than plastic bottles, but the glass didn't leach anything into the water.
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on a (somewhat) related topic: can you do a thing on the use of PVC pipes in homes?
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No! I love my nalgenes :(
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Have a Sigg 1.5 liter I use every day. Ultra light and no funny taste.
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I have a KleenKanteen, that i like a lot. The largest size sometimes makes funny noises, "farts", when you use the drinking nozzle.
Hope they work on that.
Another thing that I have seen, are Snapple bottles wrapped in Duct Tape. Reuse before recycle?
Sylvia
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Perhaps the "aftertaste" is actually just the "taste" of metal? I haven't ever used a Kleen Kanteen, but it looks to be the same type of thing as a Sigg, which I have used (and love!).
I had heard about the leeching bit, especially after running it through the dishwasher it would continuously leech at higher levels, and I loved how clean my nalgene felt after the dishwasher. So I switched to Sigg.
Sylvia - does the duct tape render it un-recyclable then?? Not that you can't throw it into the recycling, but would it get weeded out at the recycling plant?
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besides the leaching, don't bacterias build up in plastics because they can't be sterilized? stainless steel is the way. keeps the water colder, too.
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The problem with the glass lined thermoses was that if you dropped them, the glass shattered inside. As a child, there was nothing worse than opening your (metal) lunchbox to find out that you now had "crunchy" milk :(
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Take a walk on the wildside with a pickle jar water bottle.
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